Parameter-dependent convergence bounds and complexity measure for a class of conceptual hydrological models

Journal of Hydroinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 443-463

  Pande, Saket ^a   Bastidas, Luis A ^b   McKee, Mac ^b   Bhulai, Sandjai ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complexity; Convergence bounds; Hydrological model identification; Inverse problems; Probabilistic and statistical methods; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865026679     PISSN: 14647141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2011.005     Document Type: Article

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